Kwesi: let�s address
resolutions about once a semester, maybe the second meeting, unless something
pressing comes up. 2) Look at carefully, what kinds of resolutions are we
addressing here. Open door for discussions, but don�t want to be swamped with
resolutions at every meeting.

George: history
shows there�s no time when we�ve been swamped by resolutions. This is result of
miscommunication, unhappiness, over the years.

Don C: we don�t want
to micromanage anything

Kwesi: how about
once a semester

Vinod: traditionally
Bruce has met with us at EXEC Comm meetings as an opportunity to discuss

Iztok: we need to
align our calendars better

Kwesi: calendars are
difficult

Iztok: talking about
both VC and C being here at least once a semester

Chuck: important to
get resolutions addressed

Kwesi: looks at as
call for us to take a look at what�s going on here, review things.

Don: Faculty
budgetary affairs committee that has been ignored in the process; wants to
involve that part of faculty governance structure to move on.

Vinod: we need
concrete response from the administration

Chuck: we had an
academic priorities comm., were concerned about the replacement of P. Lundberg,
that Neal could serve in that capacity, that was ignored. We have tried to
communicate about these centers.

George: 123 people
voted.

1.
Resolution 104-07 � MLK DAY

The IUN faculty
organization reasserts its commitment and support for its 1997 resolution
outlining the institutional process for Martin Luther King Holiday/Black History
Month activities, passed 16 Nov., 2007.

Bruce:
MLK is university event, not the purview of one dept.�university should plan it.
Continue having diversity series (body that accepts proposals and accepts event
for that day)

Kwesi: DPG has been
given what they have asked for

BB: funding will
follow to A&S

Don: he feels that
BSO and Minority studies faculty should have a say in the campus-wide approach

Bruce says they are
involved in DPG group, says nothing was going on when he got here in 1999, two
years money was there and nothing was done.

Sam: asked if letter
to minority studies has gone out yet- no are editing

Chuck: why did Min
Studies and student groups feel excluded?

Bruce: Mary Frances
Berry proposed by Minority Studies �then discovered could get Rev. Bernice King
for one day only, decision was made to get both; although MS didn�t want that,
they only wanted MFB. So Bruce takes responsibility for that.

Students and MS feel
left out; they need to be included in next year�s planning

Don: there is a
faculty governance issue- be useful to have someone representing the fac
governance structure

Result:

2. Resolution
105-07

Dissolution of
the Center for Regional Excellence,
unless the center can generate its own revenue to pay for personnel costs for at
least a two year period, beginning July 1, 2008. Such a determination will be
made by a committee appointed jointly by the Faculty Organization and the VCAA,
passed by mail ballot Dec. 2007.

Kwesi�s response:
he feels
we need the Center for Excellence to lead efforts to engage the community. We
can make things better in terms of what has gone on and focus on the area, we
have spread our wings too far. He feels we have not really engaged the
community.

How to fund it:
we have
not done a good job, if this committee is put together, how do we focus on
getting grants because the money is there, state grants. We need to set up
reasonable time line to work towards this. July 2008 is not reasonable. We need
to review what we�ve done and what gains we have made. Difficult to measure in
terms of dollar figures, but need to know what has happened. Need more than
giving away $45,000 in grant money to faculty. Welcomes forming committee to
come up with decision we can all work with. We need to look at THIS (Gary)
community.

Linda � doesn�t hear
anything about the Center.

Kwesi � Debbie
Thomas is putting a lot of work in it, but doesn�t know if it�s going in the
right direction. We need one person from community and one from the campus.

Vinod: asks the
question about $350,000 for the Center � he suggests can we have a part time
person who runs the center.

Kwesi: we hired her
as a tenured faculty member, so can consider that and put her in classroom part
time. In the $350,000,$45,000 awarded to faculty grants, so that needs to be
removed.

Kwesi � no, IU chips
in $20,000 (intercampus research); ($107,000 for sum fac fellowships); some
faculty keep getting these grants but don�t get further grants to help the
community

Sam Flint- CRE
should become its own rainmaker (bring in soft money) that doesn�t come out of
faculty hides

Kwesi: wants to sit
down with advisory group, made up almost entirely of our own faculty, and hear
about plans, and talk about feasibility of center being entirely on soft
money�that may not happen; may have a cost-share in the center, even if get
million dollar grant, may be stipulation that staff cannot be paid.

Sam: this is more
than wake up call�need to talk about her (Debbie Thomas�)job. When she was
hired, wasn�t it made clear to her that she has to secure funding? The center�s
mission

Kwesi �not part of
primary mission

Linda- is
curatoriate supposed to advise her?

Has the group met?
The curatoriate has not met yet.

Chuck � when he
asked her how is she raising money, Debbie said he�s the only person who asked
that question. She was told it�s not her job to raise money. In the past we were
told both centers were going to be self sustaining.

Don: My concern is
not much has happened. This was not an issue when hiring came up. Administrative
share of front research grants, overhead share (that�s hard to get- private fund
raising don�t do that and feds are cracking down). Has to be coordinated with
campus fund raising efforts. Needs to be some sense at campus level about what
the funding priorities are.

Linda: Director gets
marching orders from the Board.

Bruce: she does not
report to those boards, but directly to Kwesi.

Vinod: need
guidelines about hard money and soft money

Kwesi: we can
discuss these when we sit down and meet with the committee

3. Resolution
106-07

Dissolution of
the Institute for Innovative Leadership, unless the center
can generate its own revenue to pay for personnel costs for at least a two year
period, beginning July 1, 2008. Such a determination will be made by a committee
appointed jointly by the Faculty Organization and the VCAA, passed by mail
ballot Dec. 2007.

Result:

Kwesi: salary was in
the $90,000 � Charlotte is being paid $10,000 in the interim. Going through
reorganization to do it with reduced funding. In discussion with student affairs
� does it belong there? All students who have gone through feel it has helped
them. Look for ways to improve the Institute, put a cap on campus investment.
Raising funds � he thinks it will be more difficult.

Don � thinks it will
be less difficult, because easier to identify the impact if our students are
getting jobs out in the community. Have concrete impact of students in
community. Maybe started in 1998 � was supposed to be self-sustaining � at a
salary of $90,000 over 10 years. He brought in some money from Indiana
Leadership but it went with him.

Sam � says it�s the
responsibility of the CEO � every non-profit.

Kristin: we�re not
talking about big league savings

Kwesi: would not
advocate for full time director � can see structure like now, someone who has a
job like Charlotte with CETL, but keep them separate

Vinod: didn�t ask
for dissolution of center. Wants to look at impact that the institute has had on
our students and see if the investment is worth it�if we can bring down the cost
substantially and look at a time line for means to support it.

Don: This was
Marilyn�s idea � she pushed for it to happen, it would be good to hear about
what her expectations were

Sam: assume there�s
no annual report and objectives to see how they square

Don: a few years
ago, task forces were reviewed by task forces

Bruce: refers to how
undeveloped this place is when he came, we don�t have an institution, in
response to Sam�s comment, annual reports are not a matter of course. What is
the case is that Kwesi is here for 1-1/2 years and he�s making great progress.
I�m not criticizing anything you�ve said, it might be ok to move on to the next
item.

Don: in Business, we
were never asked to do an annual report.

Vinod: appreciates
Bruce�s presence. Happy about what he said about the Center, but the Leadership
Institute �it�s been 10 years living off the public trough.

Bruce: we didn�t
fire Keith a long time ago and it�s our fault. In this case you�re right, they
should have been raising money, it�s my understanding they were to be self
supporting, I accept responsibility for that and I don�t begrudge your
frustration.

4.
Resolution 107-07

No additional
cost for the College of Health and Human Services
be incurred, i.e., administrative restructuring of the divisions incorporated
into CHHS can be the only way to fund the administrative structure of the CHHS,
passed by mail ballot, Dec. 2007.

Result:

Kwesi: It is not
possible, we need to keep connection with medical school. Talked with DeeDee re:
ad for Associate Dean for CHHS�he has big job description. Saving money; if we
have to hire a full time dean, there will be no full time associate dean in CHHS.
We are paying Pat Bankston a fraction of his salary to be dean; are doing a
reorganization within the unit to create some money. I.e., MLT ($45,000) in
addition to teaching � gone now, Dir. Respiratory Therapy, makes $45,000 in
addition to teaching�just finished meeting with Ivy Tech to close ours. Then
look at Dental, Robinson, 12-month employee, $56,000. M.Skurka, Adler, not
making much more than other faculty make as people running the unit. The only
one we can look at is Nursing, Dean. Need Director of Nursing, 12 month salary
needs to be comparable to other campuses,$107,000. F-T director of Social
Work�in $70s.

Vinod: his
interpretation of structure is Dean of CHHS � over medical school. . if you get
four year medical school he will advocate for it

Chuck: if this is
based on growth, what does it look like to you?

Don: we have so many
opportunities, if we get 4-year med school, master�s in nursing, bachelors� in
social work � all these opportunities but can�t do it for free

George: through
transparency, and assessment, we can make them begin to pay for themselves

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[The following two
motions, also considered by mail ballot Dec. 2008, did not pass:

* Reduction in
costs associated with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, by eliminating
all salaried staff and reducing the Director position to a part time teaching
position.

Kwesi: RE: CETL �
there�s room for improvement
there for faculty to be comfortable in working with CETL. Ours is staffed with
more people than other places. Want to bring faculty on board.

* Summer teaching
stipends shall not exceed $ 7000 per course.
This amount will be indexed annually to the average faculty raise awarded in the
prior academic year.]

Kwesi: it failed but we�ll be looking at it again to reduce costs.

Also on the agenda
for the 15 February 2008 Faculty Org. meeting are

1.AQIP--discussion
of the 26-8 March 2008 site visit 2. Announcement of the library fund criteria
3. On-going Gen. Ed./Assessment resolution 4. Introduction of the VCSS 5.
Report from the CT & DE

Sam: Discussion of a
table by Library Report to approve budget of $400,000. No rationale about
where�s the budget, how it has changed.

Don: should charge
the library committee with approving the budget. I.e., need Modern Languages
line rather than French Spanish, German, etc. Fiscal year is July 1-June 30 and
library committee doesn�t come on board until September or October.�Large chunks
could be obligated, unless they meet in May.